Monday, June 30, 2014

Pride Promotions Presents Wolf Run by BA Tortuga and a Giveaway!

Book
Name: Wolf Run

Author
Name: BA Tortuga

Author
Bio: Texan to the bone and an unrepentant Daddy's Girl, BA Tortuga spends her days with her basset hounds, getting tattooed, texting her sisters, and eating Mexican food. When she's not doing that, she's writing. She spends her days off watching rodeo, knitting and surfing porn sites in the name of research. BA's personal saviors include her partner, Julia Talbot, her best friend, Sean Michael, and coffee. Lots of coffee. Really good coffee.

Having written everything from fist-fighting rednecks to hard-core cowboys to werewolves, BA does her damnedest to tell the stories of her heart, which was raised in Northeast Texas, but is feeling the Colorado mountains calling. With books ranging from hard-hitting GLBT romance, to fiery menages, to the most traditional of love stories, BA refuses to be pigeon-holed by anyone but the voices in her head.

Mick
is a lone wolf in all ways. He’s left his pack, he’s left his homelands and
he’s on the road, footloose and fancy free. Well, at least until he wanders up
to a fence and finds a little wolf running his ass off behind it. Mick stops to
let the pup out and is stunned to hear the young wolf, Scotty, tell him “no”.
Scotty's mate and best friend, Danny, asked Scotty to stay behind the fence, so
he will be safe while Danny fights to support them both. All this leaves Mick’s
fur standing on end. Maybe, Mick doesn’t need one mate to bring him home.
Maybe, he needs two.

Excerpt:

He
dropped his wolf form as soon as he was out of sight, his body lengthening into
a biped. “Dude, why are you in a cage?”

The pup yelped and
scrambled back, leaping onto the porch.

“Hey, I’m not here to
hurt you. I can open the gate.”

The pup looked at him
then boom, a lovely lean man stood there, shaggy blond hair curling around his
face. “H-hey.”

“Hi. Would you like to
run? I can get you out.” God, the kid was adorable and plenty old enough to
play.

“Oh. Oh, no. Daniel
would be so mad at me for getting out again.” Eyes the color of brandy caught
the sun. “Daniel says I’ll get hurt, lost.”

“Does Daniel mistreat
you?” Because Mick could beat someone down just for fun.

“Daniel? My Daniel?”
The pup’s laugh was happy, joyous, the look on his face fond and warm. “Oh, no.
Daniel loves me. He works for both of us. He brings me half his food every day.
He’s a good mate. We… The Alpha said ‘too many males’, and we… Daniel pays for
this home, he brushes me, he works all day every day.”

“Do you work?” Mick
tilted his head, waiting, nodding in sympathy. Damn, it was hard for bachelor
males to manage when thrust out on their own, especially ones who needed an
alpha as much as this one did. It seemed like the kid barely held it together,
at least on two legs. Sweet baby.

“I paint. I paint
pictures, and I wash Daniel’s uniforms. I… I get… He follows rules better than
me, and he can stop a shift, if he needs to. He can even work during the moon.”

There is Mick, who’s suffering from
a bad case of wanderlust. He left his pack and is on the move, looking for…
something. Eventually, he stumbles across an old beat-up Airstream trailer out
in the middle of nowhere with a—for a lack of better word—dilapidated dog run.
Only it’s a young wolf racing up and down, not a dog. Concerned a fellow shifter
might be trapped in unpleasant circumstances, Mick investigates.

Daniel and his mate, Scott, are two
young wolves trying their best to survive, after their Alpha kicked them out. They
are barely making it. Daniel works day after day, hour after hour, in an effort
to keep their heads above water. Scott stays home. I ached for Daniel. And
Scotty? Well, you just want to wrap him up and hug him. It’s a grim situation.

Then Mick shows up.

This story is full of cuddles,
loving on each other, petting, kissing… and sex. Lots of sex lol. It’s a sweet,
kind of sad story that actually made me tear up near the end. (In a good
way!!!) The story is fast moving, and didn’t take me long to read. If you’re looking
for something that’ll rip your emotions out and leave your tattered feelings
bleeding on the ground… Nope, lol. This ain’t it. Wolf Run is a lovely, feel-good
story that left me happy at the end. And there are, by God, days when we all need that.

I do wish the plot had been fleshed
out more, and in places, it was a little rushed.

About Me

Hey and welcome to my M/M blog!
My published name is M.A. Church, but I also wrote as nomoretears00. I'm a true Southern belle who spent many years in the elementary education sector. Now I spend my days lost in fantasy worlds, arguing with hardheaded aliens on far-off planets, herding my numerous shifters, or trying to tempt my country boys away from their fishing poles. It’s a full time job, but hey, someone’s gotta do it! When not writing, I'm exploring the latest M/M novel to hit the market, watching my beloved Steelers, or sitting glued to HGTV. That’s if I'm not on the back porch tending to the demanding wildlife around the pond in the backyard. The ducks are very outspoken. I'm married to my high school sweetheart, and we have two grown children.